Correspondence to: Shuai Zhang email: [email protected] ABSTRACT LiOH/urea/thiourea aqueous systems have been successfully applied to the dissolution of bacterial cellulose (BC) and alginate (AL) to prepare blend fibers. Morphology, compatibility and mechanical properties of the blend fibers were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT...

Cardiovascular disease claims millions of lives every year throughout the world. Biomaterials are used widely for the treatment of this fatal disease. With the advent of nanotechnology, the use of nanocomposites has become almost inevitable in the field of biomaterials. The versatile properties of nanocomposites, such as improved durability and biocompatibility, make them an ideal choice for va...

Metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) studies of the optical brightener Tinopal-CBS (4,40distyrylbiphenyl sulfonic sodium salt) have been undertaken using steady-state and time resolved fluorescence measurements on silver island films (SiFs) deposited on glass slides and silver nano-particles adsorbed onto cellulose based filter paper. Nearly a 4.5 fold enhancement in fluorescence intensity is obse...

studies were carried out on the preparation and properties of the composites made from cellulose acetate butyrate and cellulose acetate propionate with various amounts of barium strontium titanate nano-particle. the nano-particles of barium strontium titanate (bst) with formulation of ba0.77sr0.23tio3 were made by sol-gel method and their purity and particle size were analyzed by x-ray diffract...

the study was carried out to develop an efficient approach for prediction the genotoxicity of carbon nanotubes. the experimental data on the bacterial reverse mutation test (ta100) on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) was collected from the literature and examined as an endpoint. by means of the optimal descriptors calculated with the monte carlo method a mathematical model of the endpoint...

Mg(OH)2 nanoparticles were synthesized by a rapid microwave reaction. The effect of sodium dodecyl sulfonate (SDS as anionic surfactant) and cetyl tri-methyl ammonium bromide (CTAB as cationic surfactant) on the morphology of magnesium hydroxide nanostructures was investigated. Multi wall carbon nano tubes was organo-modified for better dispersion in cellulose acetate matrix. The influence of M...